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To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware.

One whose trade is to make or sell perfumes.

A consellation of the northern hemisphere, near Taurus and Cassiopea. It contains a star cluster visible to the naked eye as a nebula.

One who sells medicines; an apothecary.

ly to (another). Tackeray. -- Piece broker, one who buys shreds and remnants of cloth to sell again. -- Piece goods, goods usually sold by pieces or fixed portions, as shirtings, calicoes, sheetings, and the like.

A man who makes or sells pies.

Capture of fishes, as by angling. [R.] W. H. Russell.

r manners. Milton. To polish off, to finish completely, as an adversary. [Slang] W. H. Russell.

The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost. "Buy wine and milk without…

Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods. Let no man anticipate uncertain profits. Rambler.

cles, manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell. U. S. Statutes.

One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder. Bouvier.

A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price. Johnson's Cyc.

e back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase. If a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold. Lev. xxv. 29.

n large quantities, as corn, provisions, etc., at a market or fair, with the intention of selling the same again, in or near the same place, at a higher price, -- a practice which was formerly treated as a public offense.

The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand.

To sell in small quantities, as by the single yard, pound, gallon, etc.; to sell directly to the consumer; as, to retail cloth or groceries.

To cry or shout; hence, to sell by auction. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Very successful; accomplishing success quickly; as, a runaway bestseller.

To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value. [Tradesmen's Cant]